tUsing Podcasting to Enhance Student Learning

What is Podcasting?

Experiences with Podcasting

• Hiroko Burch, Linkhorn Park
• Gary Lennon, Fairfield
• Donna Steele, ODC
• Steve Delaney, Strawbridge
• Tom Kern, Kingston
• Theresa Dyson, Hermitage
• Sheila Teri, Trantwood

Sample Podcasts

Broadcast Cooke
http://wtcooke.mypodcast.com/index.html

Civil War News (New Castle)
http://www.newcastlees.vbschools.com/CivilWarNews.html

Cub Cafe' Podcasts
http://www.kempsvillemeadowses.vbschools.com/
http://dmoretz.edublogs.org/

Old Donation Center
http://olddonation.edublogs.org/

First Grade Teacher at Trantwood ES
http://kbdowdy.learnerblogs.org/

Trantwood Blog
http://trantwoodelem.learnerblogs.org/

Landstown Elementary
http://www.gcast.com/u/LandstownElem/main

Radio Willow Web
http://www.mpsomaha.org/willow/radio/

Brookline Book Reviews
http://www.runkle.org/Podcasts/index.html

Something a little different - a Trantwood ES VoiceThread
http://voicethread.com/share/122463/

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Podcasting Brainstorming - LMS

Benefits

Auditory learners
Bigger audience
Work on oral communication skills
Motivates and engages
Ownership
Allows students who were absent to hear what happened
Access on demand
Reinforcement

Creative Format Ideas

Commercials
Book reviews
Interviews
Virtual field trips
Library lessons
Document animal life cycles
Reader's Theater

Ideas for Curricular Applications

Anywhere

Ideas for Student Assessment

Rubric - be careful to identify what's important

Podcasting Brainstorming - CRS

Benefits

Incorporates multiple subjects
Sense of ownership
Auditory learners
Improves public speaking skills
Multi-modal
Broadens the audience
Increases parent involvement (if posted)
Incorporate cooperative groups
Writing/speaking for a real-world purpose
Good way to review

Creative Format Ideas

Interviews
News Program
Ask an Expert
Take on the role of famous person
Book responses
School radio show
Storytelling
Travel log
Guest Speakers
Learning journal
Learning another language
Poetry corner
Learning sight words, math facts
Songs - maybe even to the same tune of another song

Ideas for Curricular Applications

Scenario discussion for social studies
Centers
Extend the study of states or a region
Biographies
Story starters

Ideas for Student Assessment

Written work can be graded prior to podcast creation
Establish criteria - think through

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Audacity Demonstration - Steve Delaney, Strawbridge

Audacity Manual (Audacity's website)
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/manual-1.2/index.html

Audacity Resources (Camtasia Tutorials, Handouts, Sample Files to use for Editing Practice)
http://staffdev.henrico.k12.va.us/~baedkecj/audacity/indexaud.html

Audacity Tutorial
http://www.how-to-podcast-tutorial.com/


Audacity Introduction
Audacity Introduction.doc

Music Clips--SoundZAbound
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Small Group Creative Presentations

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Additional Podcasting Resources

Education Podcast Network

http://www.epnweb.org/index.php

KidCast – Podcasting in the Classroom

http://www.intelligenic.com/blog/

Learn Out Loud Podcast Directory

http://www.learnoutloud.com/Podcast-Directory

One-Stop Shambles Podcasting Page

http://www.shambles.net/podcasting/

Only Podcasting.com

http://www.onlypodcasting.com/

Podcasting101 Wiki

http://podcasting101.pbwiki.com/

Podcasting for Dummies – Podcasts by Tee Morris

http://www.dummies.com/WileyCDA/DummiesTitle/productCd-0471748986,page-1.html

Podcasting Resources

http://www.wright.edu/~roger.carlsen/podcasts.htm

Take Your Writing on the Road with Traveling Stories (VSTE Presentation)

http://staffdev.henrico.k12.va.us/~fitzpafj/vste/vste08.html

Classroom Audio Podcasting – Article

http://www.wtvi.com/TEKS/05_06_articles/classroom-audio-podcasting.html